Janet Flanner Quotes

When you look at the startling ruins of Nuremberg, you are looking at a result of the war. When you look at the prisoners on view in the courthouse, you are looking at 22 of the causes.

The older women were Sunbeams and I guess we were Cherubs or Lambs, but our mothers were Nightingales.

I act as a sponge. I soak it up and squeeze it out in ink every two weeks.

She had storms all her life, but she died peacefully.

In the history of art there are periods when bread seems so beautiful that it nearly gets into museums.

I keep going over a sentence. I nag it, gnaw it, pat and flatter it.

Isadore [Duncan], who had an un-American genius for art, for organizing love, maternity, politics and pedagogy on a great personal scale, had also an un-American genius for grandeur.

Genius is immediate, but talent takes time.

By jove, no wonder women don't love war nor understand it, nor can operate in it as a rule; it takes a man to suffer what other men have invented.

The German passion for bureaucracy — for written and signal forms . . . to move about, to work, to exist — is like a steel pin pinning each French individual to a sheet of paper, the way an entomologist pins each specimen insect . . .